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1977 The first Apple Computer goes on sale. Quebec
adopts French as the official language. Jimmy Carter is elected as the
President of United States and the first oil flows through the Trans Alaskan
Oil Pipeline. The precursor to the GPS system in use today is started
by US Department of defense

Cost of Living 1977

How Much things cost in 1977
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 6.5%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 831
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 7.75%
Average Cost of new house $49,300.00
Average Income per year $15,000.00
Average Monthly Rent $240.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 65 cents
Bikini $9.00
Renault Gordini $6,998,00
BMW 320i $7,990.00

What Events Happened in 1977

Jimmy Carter
Elected President of United States

President Carter grants pardon to American
Draft dodgers of the Vietnam War Period

Jimmy Carter President of
United States warns that Americans need to make profound changes in
their Oil Consumption

The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously
to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr

In Hamilton, Bermuda British soldiers are
called in to control race riots in the city

1977 Bucharest Earthquake - kills more
than 1,500

French is adopted as the official language
of Quebec

Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Amnesty
International

Menachem Begin a center-right politician for
the Likud party became Israel's sixth prime minister.

Cyclone in India kills 20,000 and leaves
2 million homeless

Jubilee celebrations are held in the United
Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II's reign

The New York City Blackout lasts for
25 hours and results in looting and disorder.

World Trade Center in New York, is completed

Two 747 jumbo jets collide at Tenerife Airport
in the Canary Islands

US Population reaches 216 million

Opium Perfume introduced

165 people die in Beverly Hills Supper Club
fire

The Trans Alaskan Oil Pipeline
opens

Four Palestinian hijackers hijack a Lufthansa
airliner demanding the release of 11 imprisoned members of
Germany's Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, also known as the Red Army
Faction

The US returns the Panama Canal
back to Panama

Elvis Presley dies
on August 16.

Popular Culture 1977

Record company EMI sacks the controversial
UK punk rock group the Sex Pistols.

Star Wars opens in cinemas and filmgoers line
up for hours to see it

Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
is released

The Clash release their first album "The
Clash "

Perhaps most important in Popular Culture
is the development of punk music from groups like the Ramones, Iggy
Pop's ,Clash , Elvis Costello, The Stranglers, and the Sex Pistols

Popular Films

Star Wars Episode
IV: A New Hope

Rocky

Smokey and the Bandit

A Star Is Born

Saturday Night Fever

King Kong

The Deep

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Annie Hall

Popular Musicians

Rod Stewart

Stevie Wonder with " I Wish "

The Eagles with " Hotel California and
New Kid in Town "

The Bee Gees with " How Deep is your
love "

Barbra Streisand

Fleetwood Mac

Wings

Hot Chocolate

Technology 1977

The first Apple
II computers went on sale

NAVSTAR Global Positioning System GPS Inaugurated
by US Department of defense

The first ever Quadraphonic concert in London
by Pink Floyd

The first commercial flight Concord London
to New York

The first MRI Scanner is tested in Brooklyn

NASA space shuttle makes its first test flight
off the back of a jetliner

Voyager I and Voyager II are launched
unmanned to explore the outer solar system

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country
( or attributed to First Use )